Data Quality Lead
Location: NZ, N, Auckland
Department: Command Central
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Mid-Senior level
Industry: Information Technology and Services
Function: Information Technology

Company profile:
Vend is looking for some awesome new talent to come join us. You'll be working in an awesome team doing awesome things, and generally being awesome.Learn about us on our blog, or meet the team on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedInAwesome SpaceOur brand new Auckland office space is located on Nuffield Street in Newmarket, surrounded by our customers and the industry we love. It is huge, open, and shiny new with great meeting room spaces, casual working environments and plenty of space to host awesome events. We don't do cubicles, just plenty of space, whiteboards and meetings rooms. We also have a great cafe/retail space with our very own Front of House Manager taking care of our visitors and fellow Venders. Like Auckland our Melbourne office is surrounded by retail. It's a great wee space equipped with tiny houses and some awesome cardboard cutout animals.Our Toronto office is located right in the heart of downtown retail district. Like Melbourne and Auckland there's a great vibe with great coffee, boutique stores and some of the greatest restaurants in the city. Our SoMa office in San Francisco is located in the middle of the SF tech scene, just a (Biz) stone's throw from Twitter.The EnvironmentWe want you to be at the top of your game. You can wear whatever clothing you like, start work late in the morning, take breaks whenever you want and generally work the way you want to work. Who we're looking forVend is looking for people to push the boundaries. We are a hard working professional team with a wicked sense of humour, and we are looking for people who thrive in a collaborative open environment. We want passionate, hard working, talented individuals that want to lead in their field.

Job description:
Who are we?Vend is an award winning web based point of sale software for retail.  We’re chucking out crusty old cash registers and replacing them with iPads, touch screens and beautiful software, all of this to make life easier for our retailers.  Vend is a fast-growing tech start-up, since launching in 2010 we’ve now got 10,000+ customers all over the world, have more than 180 employees, and offices in 6 different countries.As well as developing a world-leading product, we believe that our culture is world-leading too! We balance super hard work with having a lot of fun at work!  Like playing pool, getting a Dia de los Muertos makeover, zoning out on the couches listening to music or raiding the snack cupboard (FYI frozen marshmallows are the latest craze at Vend - seriously, try them!). We know you have a life outside of work. We know you probably have little side projects or businesses too. This is valued and at Vend you can have a life inside work to.The story of your role..Data is central to Vend’s decision making and how we manage relationships with customers and ultimately deliver awesome products. We're all about making data-driven decisions here and having an awesome data warehouse is a huge part of this! Our Analytics and Insights team is currently in the process of building a data warehouse from scratch and what we need now is a Data Quality Lead to drive continuous improvement in our quest to have a single source of truth.We have multiple sources of data right now - Salesforce, Zendesk, Charify, Google Analytics, and Vend’s core application. You’ll be working to build a data map of how data flows in and out of each system, and where the inconsistencies occur. As well as discovering which systems hold the most business critical data, you’ll be making pragmatic recommendations about how data quality can be improved in these areas.Ultimately, you will enhance the value of data at Vend - enabling our leaders to make more informed decisions about the future of our business. Our data nirvana is to have customised and insightful analytics available to everyone - we’ll be using Tableau to make this a reality.

Requirements:
We want to hear from you if:You love numbers and you're a massive data nerdYou have strong analytical skills and commercial acumen. Your work will be discovering inconsistencies, diplomacy is key (let’s not offend anyone while we fix stuff)You’re a confident communicator - part of your role will be to make robust and pragmatic recommendations around data quality  to key stakeholders.You’re systematic and methodical in your approach, but not uncomfortable with life in an ever-changing, fast-growing, software start-upYou can use SQL to compare and contrast different datasetsYou can follow your data intuition and investigate inconsistencies that may, on the surface, seem minorBonus points if you’ve worked in retail beforeIf this sounds like you then get in touch now and delight us with your unique application! We have HUGE projects in the pipeline this year and need the best talent on-board to help achieve our goals.While Vend is totally open to receiving applications from people based overseas, our recruitment process for technical talent is lengthy and involves a lot of face-to-face time between our candidates and existing team members here. We can start initial stages of interviewing using awesome technology like Skype and Google Hangouts, we really need you to be here and to have hung out with us in Auckland before making a job offer.

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